Innovation Summit

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Overview

Every business in every industry must think and act like a technology company to compete in today’s global economy.

Exponential technologies--including artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing--coupled with political uncertainty, make leading a business today no easy feat and the stakes are high. How can companies ensure that they emerge with long-term strategies to harness technology for positive and profitable growth?

The 2019 Innovation Summit will provide a playbook on the technologies you need to stay competitive and at the forefront of industry. Join us to discuss the answers to questions such as:

Can companies ensure that they have long-term strategies despite the uncertainty, and can technology set them up for a positive and profitable growth?

Which technologies are going to make the most impact to corporations' bottom lines the soonest?

Is the fear that the tech titans will use their power to protect and extend their own dominance to the detriment of consumers justified?

How can policymakers restrain the giants without unduly stifling innovation? And what ought to be the role of the governments in curbing tech monopolies and propelling competition?

The debates and discussions at the summit will offer a robust geopolitical context while dissecting and analysing the trends that promise to follow Moore's Law patterns of exponential growth.

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Why attend

The Innovation Summit is designed for C-level and senior executives responsible for information, technology, strategy, and marketing, who are charged with driving innovation and new product development—across industries and sectors within their business. Join The Economist editors, top thinkers, Fortune 500 leaders, policymakers, academics and disruptive entrepreneurs to share insights on how every company can leverage exponential technologies to shape progress, even during a time when technology’s getting a bad rap.

Speakers

Chad Anderson

Chief executive, Space Angels and managing partner, Space Capital

Chad Anderson

Chief executive, Space Angels and managing partner, Space Capital

Chad Anderson is chief executive of Space Angels and managing partner of Space Capital, together the world’s leading source of capital for entrepreneurial space ventures. He also serves on several boards, including the UK Space Catapult's, where he supports the national strategy to grow the space sector in the country.

Prior to his current roles, Mr Anderson enjoyed a successful career at JP Morgan Chase where he managed a $50bn real estate portfolio through the Great Recession. Anderson holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Dan Altman

Founder, North Yard Analytics, and co-founder NYK Capital Management

Dan Altman

Founder, North Yard Analytics, and co-founder NYK Capital Management

Dan Altman is co-founder of NYK Capital Management, an investment firm focused on European soccer, and founder of North Yard Analytics, a sports data consulting firm that applies “Moneyball” techniques to soccer and other sports. He also spent two years as head of strategy at Kaplan-Levien Sports, the owner of three soccer clubs in the United States and United Kingdom. Outside of soccer, Dan works with US Olympic teams to generate an extra competitive edge, through both tactical decision-making and athlete evaluation. After finishing his doctorate in economics at Harvard, he spent several years as an economics columnist for The Economist and The New York Times and was an economic advisor in the British government. Immediately before his career change, he worked as a director of Dalberg, a global strategic consulting firm, and was senior editor for economics at Foreign Policy magazine. He also taught global macroeconomic forecasting and sports analytics in practice at New York University's Stern School of Business. An internationally bestselling author and former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has lived and worked on four continents.

David Awschalom

Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

David Awschalom

Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

David Awschalom is the Liew family professor and director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange at the University of Chicago, and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a scientist in the emerging fields of spintronics and quantum information engineering. His research involves controlling individual electrons, nuclei, and photons for fundamental studies of quantum systems, as well as potential applications in computing, imaging, and encryption. Prior to his current role, he was the director of the California NanoSystems Institute and professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering at the University of California – Santa Barbara. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the European Academy of Sciences.

Hansang Bae

Chief technology officer, Riverbed Technology

Hansang Bae

Chief technology officer, Riverbed Technology

Hansang Bae is Chief Technology Officer at Riverbed Technology. He is responsible for guiding the company’s technology vision and strategy in the digital performance industry, as well as SteelScript (open APIs) and Wireshark open source development.

In his tenure with the company, Bae has held several executive positions including Chief Scientist leading the Strategic Technology Group of the CTO office and the Global Consulting Engineering team. Prior to joining Riverbed, Bae was a member of the Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering leadership team. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi.

Mandy Birch

Head of engineering strategy, Rigetti Computing

Mandy Birch

Head of engineering strategy, Rigetti Computing

Mandy Birch is the senior vice-president, engineering strategy at Rigetti Computing—a start-up building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Her role includes integrating cross-functional expertise to deliver full-stack quantum computing capability. She also drives organizational development to build a high-performance organization with the agility to rapidly innovate and scale.

Prior to joining Rigetti, Mandy enjoyed many roles in government—engineer, executive, diplomat, operations director, and strategist. While serving as a military officer, she developed a passion for building teams that unlock the potential of disruptive ideas. Her focus is leveraging breakthrough technologies and strategic partnerships to empower people and communities around the globe to thrive.

Mandy holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, an M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering, engineering sciences, and french from the US Air Force Academy.

Pearly Chen

VR/AR investor and chief of staff to the chief executive, HTC

Pearly Chen

VR/AR investor and chief of staff to the chief executive, HTC

Pearly Chen is a vice-president at HTC, a smartphone industry pioneer and virtual reality industry leader. She has served as chief of staff to its chief executive and chairwoman Cher Wang since 2013 as a cross-functional executive on strategic initiatives. She also manages HTC’s $100 million accelerator program since its inception in 2016, leading investments in a growing global portfolio of innovative startups in virtual and augmented reality, in addition to heading business development for VIVEPORT, a platform-agnostic virtual reality experience store. Prior to taking on the mission to change the world through transformative technology, she was an investment professional at Goldman Sachs.

A dynamic, high energy global citizen, multi-linguist, voracious reader, avid traveler, competitive triathlete and mother of two, she believes that everyone has the capacity to create a legacy that contributes to human progress. Putting to good use of her infectious positive energy and unique perspectives, she makes it her life’s goal to inspire and support others to thrive with their fullest potential.

Beth Devin

Head of innovation network and emerging technology, Citi Ventures

Beth Devin

Head of innovation network and emerging technology, Citi Ventures

As head of the innovation network, Beth oversees Citi Ventures’ emerging technology practice. In collaboration with internal and external partners, Beth’s team stays abreast of frontier technologies and dives deep to understand and experiment with tech that intersects with Citi’s business. By pairing a deep understanding of a technology’s potential and limitations with insight into business priorities and client needs, Citi Ventures can advocate for and support the adoption of next gen technologies that have the potential to deliver net-new value for Citi clients.

Prior to joining Citi Ventures, Beth was a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal and provided digital strategy, technology advisory and management consulting services to financial services, healthcare and technology companies. Throughout her career, Beth has held chief technology officer, chief information officer and tech leadership positions at Silicon Valley Bank, Charles Schwab, Blackhawk Network, Art.com, and Turner Broadcasting. She was also a part of the founding team and chief technology officer at Manilla.com, where she set up and managed the San Francisco office, and led the startup’s product, design, engineering, and customer service teams.

Beth started her career as a software developer, systems analyst and DBA. She received her BS in computer science from San Francisco State University and was an International Women’s Forum (IWF) Leadership fellow. She is passionate about increasing the number of women in STEM careers and regularly mentors women taking charge of their career journey. When not working, Beth loves to travel, be outdoors, practice yoga, and spend time with her husband and four grown children.

Renee DiResta

Director of research, New Knowledge, and media, misinformation, and trust fellow, Mozilla

Renee DiResta

Director of research, New Knowledge, and media, misinformation, and trust fellow, Mozilla

Renee DiResta is the director of research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge, and head of policy at the nonprofit Data for Democracy. Renee investigates the spread of disinformation and malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations. In 2017, Renee was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and had the opportunity to continue her work with the support of the Presidents Bush, President Clinton, and the LBJ Foundation. She is 2018 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, a Harvard Berkman-Klein affiliate, a staff associate at Columbia University Data Science Institute, a Council on Foreign Relations term member, and a founding adviser to the Center for Humane Technology. Previously, she has been the co-founder of logistics startup Haven, a Principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and an emerging markets derivatives trader at Jane Street. Her work and writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Wired, Slate, Fast Company, and the Economist. She is the author of the O’Reilly book“The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand”, and lives on the web at http://reneediresta.com and @noUpside.

Nicole Eagan

Chief executive, Darktrace

Nicole Eagan

Chief executive, Darktrace

Nicole Eagan is the chief executive of Darktrace. Her extensive career spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-stage growth companies. Today a member of the World Economic Forum’s Emerging Technology Council and the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, Nicole is a leading voice in global conversations around both AI and cyber security. Named 'AI Leader of the Year' in 2017, and to InspiringFifty’s ‘2018 50,’ Nicole has introduced disruptive machine learning to enterprises of all sizes. Nicole has helped to take Darktrace from a start-up to the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense, and today, Darktrace has a valuation of $1.65 billion and counts Insight, KKR, Summit Partners, and Samsung among its investors. Darktrace’s innovative approach to cyber security has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named one of WSJ's Tech Companies to Watch, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the CNBC Disruptor 50.

Becky Frankiewicz

President, ManpowerGroup North America

Becky Frankiewicz

President, ManpowerGroup North America

Becky Frankiewicz joined ManpowerGroup in July 2017 as the president of ManpowerGroup North America, bringing passion and compassion coupled with strong P&L experience from experience at large and complex global businesses.

Becky is committed to building a rightly-skilled talent supply to meet the increasing job demand across America. It's her firm belief that helping people find meaningful and sustainable work benefits individuals, families and communities. She is passionate about advancing women in leadership, developing skills to advance our workforce and advocating for conscious inclusion. She believes enabling all people to participate in the workplace and achieve their potential is not just an ethical imperative, it's good-for business.

She has delivered this message at high-profile stages across the U.S. including MIT, appearing on Squawk Box and speaking at the CES Social Innovation Summit.

Before joining ManpowerGroup, Becky led one of PepsiCo’s largest subsidiaries, Quaker Foods North America where she was responsible for the $2.6B business. Under her leadership, Quaker Foods delivered impressive growth as she led the transformation of that brand to be known as America’s ‘best start to everyday’. She was also named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in the industry, anticipating and adapting to fast changing consumer demands.

Her determination, candor and passion for work are characteristics that define the way she leads. She is a marathon runner, a mom to three daughters and the wife of her college sweetheart. She is a literal farmer’s daughter and attributes her success to an early work ethic that came from growing up on a working farm in Texas.

Becky has an MBA in finance, and a BA in Marketing from the University of Texas.

Tracy Frey

Director of strategy, Google Cloud AI

Tracy Frey

Director of strategy, Google Cloud AI

Tracy Frey is Google Cloud AI's director of strategy and is dedicated to ensuring Google Cloud AI is responsible, thoughtful, and collaborative as it continues to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning. Tracy has been with Google for 7 years, and has worked with a number of teams, including Cloud AI, Android | Chrome | Education (ACE), Google Offers and Solve for X. Before joining Google she followed a circuitous career path that has involved multiple early-stage tech startups and functions including product management, growing a developer community, product marketing, business development and often all of the above at once.

Alex Gladstein

Chief strategy officer, Human Rights Foundation

Alex Gladstein

Chief strategy officer, Human Rights Foundation

Alex Gladstein is chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as vice-president of strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, WIRED, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, presented at the European Parliament and U.S. Department of State, and participated in Singularity University events from Berlin to Johannesburg, where he is a guest lecturer on decentralization and bitcoin. He currently lives in the San Francisco area.

Sean Gourley

Founder and chief executive, Primer AI

Sean Gourley

Founder and chief executive, Primer AI

Sean Gourley is founder and chief executive of Primer. Previously, he was chief technology officer of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company he co-founded in 2009. Prior to Quid, Gourley worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA Ames. He holds a PhD in physics from Oxford, where his research as a Rhodes Scholar focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war. This research was published on the cover of Nature. He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna. He is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Gourley sits on the Knight Commission, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE: APC), and is a TED Fellow.

Manik Gupta

Chief product officer, Uber

Manik Gupta

Chief product officer, Uber

Manik Gupta is the chief product officer at Uber. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber's marketplace and maps product teams, where he was responsible for creating best-in-class mapping solutions and marketplace technologies.

Throughout his career, Manik has focused on the problems around “helping move X from point A to point B”. Prior to Uber, Manik worked on Google Maps for over seven years. He led the creation and curation of all the maps and businesses data to make Google Maps the most accurate, comprehensive and useful map of the world.

Manik grew up in India and spent many years in Singapore where he founded an e-commerce startup, BuyItTogether.com, right out of college. The company was successfully acquired by a Norwegian company, CoShopper.com, and Manik subsequently managed Hewlett Packard's e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific and Japan.

He studied computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University and received an MBA from Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Daniel Kraft

Founder and chair, Exponential Medicine, and chair for medicine & neuroscience, Singularity University

Daniel Kraft

Founder and chair, Exponential Medicine, and chair for medicine & neuroscience, Singularity University

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is the founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.

Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.

He has multiple scientific publications and medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California San Francisco.

Daniel is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society (Class 13) and member of the Inaugural (2015) class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship.

He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies. Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.

Lonne Jaffe

Managing director, Insight Venture Partners

Lonne Jaffe

Managing director, Insight Venture Partners

Lonne Jaffe is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners, and joined the firm in 2017. He was previously the CEO of Insight portfolio company Syncsort, which he joined in 2013 after serving as the senior vice president for corporate strategy at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, Lonne spent over a decade at IBM, where he led a number of sizable software acquisitions and held various technology strategy and operating executive roles.

Danny Lange

Vice-president of AI and machine learning, Unity Technologies

Danny Lange

Vice-president of AI and machine learning, Unity Technologies

Dr. Danny Lange is vice-president of AI and machine learning at Unity Technologies. He joins from Uber, where he was head of machine learning. At Uber, Danny led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile machine learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth.

Previously, Danny was general manager of Amazon machine learning -- an AWS product that offers machine learning as a cloud service. Before that, he was principal development manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale machine learning for big data. Danny spent eight years on speech recognition systems, first as chief technology officer of General Magic, Inc., then through his work on General Motors OnStar Virtual Advisor, one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until Siri. Danny started his career as a computer scientist at IBM Research.

Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has several patents to his credit.

Michael Lewis

Chief innovation officer, NanoRacks

Michael Lewis

Chief innovation officer, NanoRacks

Michael is currently the chief innovation officer at NanoRacks, LLC, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and imaginative direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the ISS, including the NRCSD (the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) system which deploys satellites from the ISS, a satellite deployer that deploys satellites off the Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a number of unique space platforms that enable space-based science, research, and education.

Gwen Lighter

Chief executive and founder, GoFly

Gwen Lighter

Chief executive and founder, GoFly

Gwen Lighter is the chief executive and founder of GoFly. She leads a team of over 3,000 innovators from 97 countries creating a multitude of personal flying devices. Supported by Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and 20+ aerospace organizational partners, GoFly is catalyzing the creation of jet packs, flying motorcycles, and flying cars to make the dream of human flight a reality.

Bob Lord

Head of cognitive applications and developer ecosystems, IBM

Bob Lord

Head of cognitive applications and developer ecosystems, IBM

Bob Lord is one of the world’s leading authorities on the use of data and emerging technologies to transform how brands engage with their customers.

Bob currently serves as senior vice-president, cognitive applications at IBM. He was appointed in 2016 by chairman, president and chief executive Ginni Rometty to lead IBM’s Digital Business Group, with a mission to change how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed by the world’s leading organizations. Today, Bob continues this charge and oversees IBM Watson cognitive solutions.

In pursuit of this goal, Bob has rebuilt IBM’s digital platforms to make it easier for clients and partners to access and deploy IBM technologies, while strengthening ties with the VC-backed startup community to ensure a steady stream of new innovation. His focus on breaking down silos, agile ways of working and instilling a startup mentality in the 107 year-old company have transformed how IBM engages with clients.

At the center of this work is a commitment to the developers and data scientists of the open source community. Bob oversees IBM’s leadership and participation in dozens of open source communities, contribution and donation of open source code, and overall industry advocacy.

Prior to IBM, Bob served as president of AOL, leading the company through its evolution into a leading, global advertising platform. He also served as chief executive of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy helping companies such as Ford, Pfizer, Conde Nast, Mercedes-Benz and Cisco redefine their brands for the digital age. He captured his experiences at Razorfish in a book he co-authored, entitled: Converge: Transforming Businesses at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology.

Bob is a member of the board for both Williams-Sonoma and Screenvision Media. He started his career as an engineer, graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in Industrial Engineering, before going on to graduate with an MBA from Harvard University.

Jody Medich

Futurist and product designer

Jody Medich

Futurist and product designer

Jody creates superhumans, not supercomputers. Rather than teaching humans the right buttons to push, she uses cognitive computing (AI, AR/VR, robotics, sensors, etc) to speak human. The resulting tools dramatically extend, augment, and amplify human abilities and are as easy to control as our own bodies. She might read too much Batman. But in her 23-year design career, Jody has created just about everything from holograms to robots and R&D. Her most notable work includes UX design for DARPA’S Big Dog, principal experience designer on the HoloLens Project at Microsoft, human machine interface for Toyota’s AiCar, and principal UX at LEAP Motion. Today, she is a futurist and product designer working to define the future of human machine interface (HMI) through radical inclusion by leveraging brain machine interface, sensors, robotics, AI, and AR/VR. She also travels the world speaking about the future of these technologies and their impact on the world for Singularity University and groups like WIRED, Google, and TEDx.

Linda Sapochak

Director, division of materials research, National Science Foundation

Linda Sapochak

Director, division of materials research, National Science Foundation

Dr. Linda Sapochak is the division director for the division of materials research (DMR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She manages one of the largest and most diverse divisions spanning condensed matter physics, materials theory and computation, solid state chemistry, electronic and photonic materials, as well as polymers, ceramics and metals. She co-chairs the presidential sub-committee for the materials genome initiative and is a member of the NSF steering committee for the Quantum Leap, initiated in 2016. She has worked in DMR since 2008 as program director for the solid state and materials chemistry (SSMC) program, for the materials research science and engineering centers (MRSEC) program, and as deputy division director in 2015. Dr. Sapochak also served as the acting deputy division director in the chemistry division in 2013 and 2014. She has managed additional projects including the emerging frontiers in research and innovation: green sustainable buildings, sustainable energy pathways, and I-Corps. Prior to her position at NSF, she was an assistant professor in the chemistry department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She later accepted a position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a DOE national lab in the energy and efficiency division to develop organic and inorganic electronic materials for solid state lighting applications. She has over 50 scientific publications and 16 patents.

Gary Shapiro

President and chief executive, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Gary Shapiro

President and chief executive, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Gary Shapiro is president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation.

Shapiro directs a staff of about 200 employees and thousands of industry volunteers, leading his organization’s promotion of innovation as a national policy to spur the economy, create jobs and cut the deficit. CTA advocates for a lower deficit, skilled immigration, free trade and policies that support innovative new business models. CTA does not seek government funding for industry.

Shapiro is a New York Times bestselling author, whose books include “Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation” (HarperCollins, 2019), “Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses” (HarperCollins, 2013) and “The Comeback: How Innovation will Restore the American Dream” (Beaufort, 2011). Through these books and television appearances, and as a columnist whose more than 1,000 opinion pieces have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, Shapiro has helped direct policymakers and business leaders on the importance of innovation in the U.S. economy. He is considered an “influencer” on LinkedIn and has more than 300,000 followers.

Julie Sweet

Chief executive, Accenture North America

Julie Sweet

Chief executive, Accenture North America

Julie Sweet is chief executive of Accenture North America, leading Accenture’s business in the United States, the company’s largest market, and Canada. She is also a member of Accenture’s global management committee. In North America, the company serves more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500.

A leader on issues including innovation, technology’s impact on business, and inclusion and diversity, Ms. Sweet serves on the Board of the Business Roundtable and chairs the Business Roundtable’s Technology Committee. Ms. Sweet serves on the Catalyst Board of Directors and is a member of the TechNet Executive Council. She also is the co-chair of the Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders. In 2018, she was named to FORTUNE’s list of “Most Powerful Women” for the third consecutive year.

Prior to assuming her current position in 2015, Ms. Sweet served as Accenture’s general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer. Before joining Accenture in 2010, she was a partner in the Corporate department of the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Ms. Sweet holds a bachelor of arts degree from Claremont McKenna College and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. She is married and has two daughters.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dan Wagner

Founder and chief executive, Civis Analytics

Dan Wagner

Founder and chief executive, Civis Analytics

Dan Wagner is the founder and chief executive of Civis Analytics, a data science firm based out of Chicago, IL. Dan founded the company in 2013 with backing from Eric Schmidt from Alphabet.

Today, Civis has 180 employees, and it provides its technology to data science and insights teams within consumer-facing organizations. Civis’s client roster includes Verizon, Airbnb, Discovery Communications - and also multiple non-profit and government clients.

Before founding Civis Analytics, Dan served as the chief analytics officer on the 2012 Obama campaign. His group revolutionized polling, statistical modeling for voter outreach, and targeted paid media for politics.

Dan received his degree in economics and public policy from the University of Chicago.

Robert Wolcott

Clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Robert Wolcott

Clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Wolcott is clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Wolcott is also a managing partner with Clareo, a foresight and growth strategy consultancy serving global corporations.

He’s co-founder and chairman of The World Innovation Network, a global community of over 2,000 innovation and growth leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors (business, government, the arts, academia, defense). TWIN gathers 450 delegates for TWIN Global each year in Chicago to explore the future.

Wolcott serves on advisory boards for ZF, a 40 billion USD German automotive supplier, H-Farm, the leading technology ecosystem in Italy, and the Open Innovation Lab of Norway. Wolcott serves on the board of CureBlindness (Himalayan Cataract Project), a global non-profit that has restored sight to over 500,000 people in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

He is a regular contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity. His book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese. Wolcott’s work appears in MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Harvard Business Review (online), TheWall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Business Week, The Financial Times (European Edition), TheNew York Times and numerous overseas publications.

Wolcott holds a BA, European and Chinese history; and an MS and Ph.D., industrial engineering & management science, Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife, Ada, and their two daughters, Jolie and Sage.

Agenda

Opening remarks

9:10 AM

Our exponential era: Capitalising on the promises of breakthrough technologies

A big picture look at exponential technologies and what companies need to do to make the most of them, with top executives and thinkers. Which technologies have the greatest potential to reshape the future of business? What does it take to get people to adopt a new technology? How do you persuade new consumers of the utility of a product or service and help them overcome the fear or stigma of doing something new while addressing ROI demands?

Beth Devin

Head of innovation network and emerging technology, Citi Ventures

Beth Devin

Head of innovation network and emerging technology, Citi Ventures

As head of the innovation network, Beth oversees Citi Ventures’ emerging technology practice. In collaboration with internal and external partners, Beth’s team stays abreast of frontier technologies and dives deep to understand and experiment with tech that intersects with Citi’s business. By pairing a deep understanding of a technology’s potential and limitations with insight into business priorities and client needs, Citi Ventures can advocate for and support the adoption of next gen technologies that have the potential to deliver net-new value for Citi clients.

Prior to joining Citi Ventures, Beth was a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal and provided digital strategy, technology advisory and management consulting services to financial services, healthcare and technology companies. Throughout her career, Beth has held chief technology officer, chief information officer and tech leadership positions at Silicon Valley Bank, Charles Schwab, Blackhawk Network, Art.com, and Turner Broadcasting. She was also a part of the founding team and chief technology officer at Manilla.com, where she set up and managed the San Francisco office, and led the startup’s product, design, engineering, and customer service teams.

Beth started her career as a software developer, systems analyst and DBA. She received her BS in computer science from San Francisco State University and was an International Women’s Forum (IWF) Leadership fellow. She is passionate about increasing the number of women in STEM careers and regularly mentors women taking charge of their career journey. When not working, Beth loves to travel, be outdoors, practice yoga, and spend time with her husband and four grown children.

Manik Gupta

Chief product officer, Uber

Manik Gupta

Chief product officer, Uber

Manik Gupta is the chief product officer at Uber. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber's marketplace and maps product teams, where he was responsible for creating best-in-class mapping solutions and marketplace technologies.

Throughout his career, Manik has focused on the problems around “helping move X from point A to point B”. Prior to Uber, Manik worked on Google Maps for over seven years. He led the creation and curation of all the maps and businesses data to make Google Maps the most accurate, comprehensive and useful map of the world.

Manik grew up in India and spent many years in Singapore where he founded an e-commerce startup, BuyItTogether.com, right out of college. The company was successfully acquired by a Norwegian company, CoShopper.com, and Manik subsequently managed Hewlett Packard's e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific and Japan.

He studied computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University and received an MBA from Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Bob Lord

Head of cognitive applications and developer ecosystems, IBM

Bob Lord

Head of cognitive applications and developer ecosystems, IBM

Bob Lord is one of the world’s leading authorities on the use of data and emerging technologies to transform how brands engage with their customers.

Bob currently serves as senior vice-president, cognitive applications at IBM. He was appointed in 2016 by chairman, president and chief executive Ginni Rometty to lead IBM’s Digital Business Group, with a mission to change how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed by the world’s leading organizations. Today, Bob continues this charge and oversees IBM Watson cognitive solutions.

In pursuit of this goal, Bob has rebuilt IBM’s digital platforms to make it easier for clients and partners to access and deploy IBM technologies, while strengthening ties with the VC-backed startup community to ensure a steady stream of new innovation. His focus on breaking down silos, agile ways of working and instilling a startup mentality in the 107 year-old company have transformed how IBM engages with clients.

At the center of this work is a commitment to the developers and data scientists of the open source community. Bob oversees IBM’s leadership and participation in dozens of open source communities, contribution and donation of open source code, and overall industry advocacy.

Prior to IBM, Bob served as president of AOL, leading the company through its evolution into a leading, global advertising platform. He also served as chief executive of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy helping companies such as Ford, Pfizer, Conde Nast, Mercedes-Benz and Cisco redefine their brands for the digital age. He captured his experiences at Razorfish in a book he co-authored, entitled: Converge: Transforming Businesses at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology.

Bob is a member of the board for both Williams-Sonoma and Screenvision Media. He started his career as an engineer, graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in Industrial Engineering, before going on to graduate with an MBA from Harvard University.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

9:55 AM

Flash of genius

What should be the role of technology in the 21st century?

Dan Altman

Founder, North Yard Analytics, and co-founder NYK Capital Management

Dan Altman

Founder, North Yard Analytics, and co-founder NYK Capital Management

Dan Altman is co-founder of NYK Capital Management, an investment firm focused on European soccer, and founder of North Yard Analytics, a sports data consulting firm that applies “Moneyball” techniques to soccer and other sports. He also spent two years as head of strategy at Kaplan-Levien Sports, the owner of three soccer clubs in the United States and United Kingdom. Outside of soccer, Dan works with US Olympic teams to generate an extra competitive edge, through both tactical decision-making and athlete evaluation. After finishing his doctorate in economics at Harvard, he spent several years as an economics columnist for The Economist and The New York Times and was an economic advisor in the British government. Immediately before his career change, he worked as a director of Dalberg, a global strategic consulting firm, and was senior editor for economics at Foreign Policy magazine. He also taught global macroeconomic forecasting and sports analytics in practice at New York University's Stern School of Business. An internationally bestselling author and former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has lived and worked on four continents.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

10:05 AM

Gr-AI-t expectations: AI and the future of work

From surveillance to the supply chain AI is gearing up to reshape the future of work. How will AI impact the workforce and change hiring practices over the next decade? How are leading businesses preparing for automation and where are the opportunities for human + machine collaboration?

Nicole Eagan

Chief executive, Darktrace

Nicole Eagan

Chief executive, Darktrace

Nicole Eagan is the chief executive of Darktrace. Her extensive career spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-stage growth companies. Today a member of the World Economic Forum’s Emerging Technology Council and the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, Nicole is a leading voice in global conversations around both AI and cyber security. Named 'AI Leader of the Year' in 2017, and to InspiringFifty’s ‘2018 50,’ Nicole has introduced disruptive machine learning to enterprises of all sizes. Nicole has helped to take Darktrace from a start-up to the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense, and today, Darktrace has a valuation of $1.65 billion and counts Insight, KKR, Summit Partners, and Samsung among its investors. Darktrace’s innovative approach to cyber security has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named one of WSJ's Tech Companies to Watch, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the CNBC Disruptor 50.

Becky Frankiewicz

President, ManpowerGroup North America

Becky Frankiewicz

President, ManpowerGroup North America

Becky Frankiewicz joined ManpowerGroup in July 2017 as the president of ManpowerGroup North America, bringing passion and compassion coupled with strong P&L experience from experience at large and complex global businesses.

Becky is committed to building a rightly-skilled talent supply to meet the increasing job demand across America. It's her firm belief that helping people find meaningful and sustainable work benefits individuals, families and communities. She is passionate about advancing women in leadership, developing skills to advance our workforce and advocating for conscious inclusion. She believes enabling all people to participate in the workplace and achieve their potential is not just an ethical imperative, it's good-for business.

She has delivered this message at high-profile stages across the U.S. including MIT, appearing on Squawk Box and speaking at the CES Social Innovation Summit.

Before joining ManpowerGroup, Becky led one of PepsiCo’s largest subsidiaries, Quaker Foods North America where she was responsible for the $2.6B business. Under her leadership, Quaker Foods delivered impressive growth as she led the transformation of that brand to be known as America’s ‘best start to everyday’. She was also named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in the industry, anticipating and adapting to fast changing consumer demands.

Her determination, candor and passion for work are characteristics that define the way she leads. She is a marathon runner, a mom to three daughters and the wife of her college sweetheart. She is a literal farmer’s daughter and attributes her success to an early work ethic that came from growing up on a working farm in Texas.

Becky has an MBA in finance, and a BA in Marketing from the University of Texas.

Sean Gourley

Founder and chief executive, Primer AI

Sean Gourley

Founder and chief executive, Primer AI

Sean Gourley is founder and chief executive of Primer. Previously, he was chief technology officer of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company he co-founded in 2009. Prior to Quid, Gourley worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA Ames. He holds a PhD in physics from Oxford, where his research as a Rhodes Scholar focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war. This research was published on the cover of Nature. He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna. He is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Gourley sits on the Knight Commission, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE: APC), and is a TED Fellow.

Danny Lange

Vice-president of AI and machine learning, Unity Technologies

Danny Lange

Vice-president of AI and machine learning, Unity Technologies

Dr. Danny Lange is vice-president of AI and machine learning at Unity Technologies. He joins from Uber, where he was head of machine learning. At Uber, Danny led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile machine learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth.

Previously, Danny was general manager of Amazon machine learning -- an AWS product that offers machine learning as a cloud service. Before that, he was principal development manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale machine learning for big data. Danny spent eight years on speech recognition systems, first as chief technology officer of General Magic, Inc., then through his work on General Motors OnStar Virtual Advisor, one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until Siri. Danny started his career as a computer scientist at IBM Research.

Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has several patents to his credit.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

10:45 AM

Morning networking break

11:15 AM

Extending reality: The business case for AR and VR

From retail to healthcare and manufacturing, companies have started to use augmented and virtual reality, however despite considerable hype, these technologies have yet to reach their full potential. What will be required for the mass adoption of AR and VR? Virtual reality promises to reshape data visualization and product prototyping; what other business opportunities exist around this new technology? From gaming to aerospace, which industries will be transformed the most by extended reality?

Pearly Chen

VR/AR investor and chief of staff to the chief executive, HTC

Pearly Chen

VR/AR investor and chief of staff to the chief executive, HTC

Pearly Chen is a vice-president at HTC, a smartphone industry pioneer and virtual reality industry leader. She has served as chief of staff to its chief executive and chairwoman Cher Wang since 2013 as a cross-functional executive on strategic initiatives. She also manages HTC’s $100 million accelerator program since its inception in 2016, leading investments in a growing global portfolio of innovative startups in virtual and augmented reality, in addition to heading business development for VIVEPORT, a platform-agnostic virtual reality experience store. Prior to taking on the mission to change the world through transformative technology, she was an investment professional at Goldman Sachs.

A dynamic, high energy global citizen, multi-linguist, voracious reader, avid traveler, competitive triathlete and mother of two, she believes that everyone has the capacity to create a legacy that contributes to human progress. Putting to good use of her infectious positive energy and unique perspectives, she makes it her life’s goal to inspire and support others to thrive with their fullest potential.

Jody Medich

Futurist and product designer

Jody Medich

Futurist and product designer

Jody creates superhumans, not supercomputers. Rather than teaching humans the right buttons to push, she uses cognitive computing (AI, AR/VR, robotics, sensors, etc) to speak human. The resulting tools dramatically extend, augment, and amplify human abilities and are as easy to control as our own bodies. She might read too much Batman. But in her 23-year design career, Jody has created just about everything from holograms to robots and R&D. Her most notable work includes UX design for DARPA’S Big Dog, principal experience designer on the HoloLens Project at Microsoft, human machine interface for Toyota’s AiCar, and principal UX at LEAP Motion. Today, she is a futurist and product designer working to define the future of human machine interface (HMI) through radical inclusion by leveraging brain machine interface, sensors, robotics, AI, and AR/VR. She also travels the world speaking about the future of these technologies and their impact on the world for Singularity University and groups like WIRED, Google, and TEDx.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts is Midwest correspondent for The Economist covering politics, policy and social affairs in America. Previously he was European Business and Finance correspondent based in Paris. Prior to this he was South Asia correspondent for The Economist, based in Delhi, where he oversaw political and general coverage from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, among other countries. Adam joined The Economist as a writer in the Foreign Department in June 1998, with a particular focus on developing countries and transnational issues. From May 2001 to the end of 2005 he was the Southern Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. Subsequently he was the News Editor of Economist.com, in London, until 2010. He has been in India since 2010. He has written special reports on the Nordic countries (2003), International Migration (2008) and two reports on India (2012 and 2015). He has written a book about a mercenary coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, “The Wonga Coup” (2006), published in Britain, the United States and South Africa.

11:45 AM

Spotlight interview: Technology as a force for good

Fireside chat with Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

Gary Shapiro

President and chief executive, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Gary Shapiro

President and chief executive, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Gary Shapiro is president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation.

Shapiro directs a staff of about 200 employees and thousands of industry volunteers, leading his organization’s promotion of innovation as a national policy to spur the economy, create jobs and cut the deficit. CTA advocates for a lower deficit, skilled immigration, free trade and policies that support innovative new business models. CTA does not seek government funding for industry.

Shapiro is a New York Times bestselling author, whose books include “Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation” (HarperCollins, 2019), “Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses” (HarperCollins, 2013) and “The Comeback: How Innovation will Restore the American Dream” (Beaufort, 2011). Through these books and television appearances, and as a columnist whose more than 1,000 opinion pieces have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, Shapiro has helped direct policymakers and business leaders on the importance of innovation in the U.S. economy. He is considered an “influencer” on LinkedIn and has more than 300,000 followers.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

12:05 PM

Quantum leaps: Here, there and everywhere

A bathing cap that can watch individual neurons, allowing others to monitor the wearer’s mind. A sensor that can spot hidden nuclear submarines. A computer that can discover new drugs, revolutionise securities trading and design new materials. A global network of communication links whose security is underwritten by unbreakable physical laws. Such—and more—is the promise of quantum technology. What is the untapped potential for businesses?

David Awschalom

Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

David Awschalom

Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

David Awschalom is the Liew family professor and director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange at the University of Chicago, and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a scientist in the emerging fields of spintronics and quantum information engineering. His research involves controlling individual electrons, nuclei, and photons for fundamental studies of quantum systems, as well as potential applications in computing, imaging, and encryption. Prior to his current role, he was the director of the California NanoSystems Institute and professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering at the University of California – Santa Barbara. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the European Academy of Sciences.

Mandy Birch

Head of engineering strategy, Rigetti Computing

Mandy Birch

Head of engineering strategy, Rigetti Computing

Mandy Birch is the senior vice-president, engineering strategy at Rigetti Computing—a start-up building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Her role includes integrating cross-functional expertise to deliver full-stack quantum computing capability. She also drives organizational development to build a high-performance organization with the agility to rapidly innovate and scale.

Prior to joining Rigetti, Mandy enjoyed many roles in government—engineer, executive, diplomat, operations director, and strategist. While serving as a military officer, she developed a passion for building teams that unlock the potential of disruptive ideas. Her focus is leveraging breakthrough technologies and strategic partnerships to empower people and communities around the globe to thrive.

Mandy holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, an M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering, engineering sciences, and french from the US Air Force Academy.

Linda Sapochak

Director, division of materials research, National Science Foundation

Linda Sapochak

Director, division of materials research, National Science Foundation

Dr. Linda Sapochak is the division director for the division of materials research (DMR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She manages one of the largest and most diverse divisions spanning condensed matter physics, materials theory and computation, solid state chemistry, electronic and photonic materials, as well as polymers, ceramics and metals. She co-chairs the presidential sub-committee for the materials genome initiative and is a member of the NSF steering committee for the Quantum Leap, initiated in 2016. She has worked in DMR since 2008 as program director for the solid state and materials chemistry (SSMC) program, for the materials research science and engineering centers (MRSEC) program, and as deputy division director in 2015. Dr. Sapochak also served as the acting deputy division director in the chemistry division in 2013 and 2014. She has managed additional projects including the emerging frontiers in research and innovation: green sustainable buildings, sustainable energy pathways, and I-Corps. Prior to her position at NSF, she was an assistant professor in the chemistry department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She later accepted a position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a DOE national lab in the energy and efficiency division to develop organic and inorganic electronic materials for solid state lighting applications. She has over 50 scientific publications and 16 patents.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts is Midwest correspondent for The Economist covering politics, policy and social affairs in America. Previously he was European Business and Finance correspondent based in Paris. Prior to this he was South Asia correspondent for The Economist, based in Delhi, where he oversaw political and general coverage from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, among other countries. Adam joined The Economist as a writer in the Foreign Department in June 1998, with a particular focus on developing countries and transnational issues. From May 2001 to the end of 2005 he was the Southern Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. Subsequently he was the News Editor of Economist.com, in London, until 2010. He has been in India since 2010. He has written special reports on the Nordic countries (2003), International Migration (2008) and two reports on India (2012 and 2015). He has written a book about a mercenary coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, “The Wonga Coup” (2006), published in Britain, the United States and South Africa.

12:45 PM

Flash of genius

What should be the role of technology in the 21st century?

Gwen Lighter

Chief executive and founder, GoFly

Gwen Lighter

Chief executive and founder, GoFly

Gwen Lighter is the chief executive and founder of GoFly. She leads a team of over 3,000 innovators from 97 countries creating a multitude of personal flying devices. Supported by Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and 20+ aerospace organizational partners, GoFly is catalyzing the creation of jet packs, flying motorcycles, and flying cars to make the dream of human flight a reality.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

12:55 PM

Spotlight on space: Can space tech reconfigure industries on Earth?

Science in space is now a $3 billion industry, according to Reuters. The falling cost of rocket launches, the miniaturization of lab equipment, and the proliferation of smaller commercial space enterprises catering to space entrepreneurs, small-scale microgravity experiments are becoming more accessible. What can microgravity teach us about genes, medicines, and the chemicals we use on earth?

Chad Anderson

Chief executive, Space Angels and managing partner, Space Capital

Chad Anderson

Chief executive, Space Angels and managing partner, Space Capital

Chad Anderson is chief executive of Space Angels and managing partner of Space Capital, together the world’s leading source of capital for entrepreneurial space ventures. He also serves on several boards, including the UK Space Catapult's, where he supports the national strategy to grow the space sector in the country.

Prior to his current roles, Mr Anderson enjoyed a successful career at JP Morgan Chase where he managed a $50bn real estate portfolio through the Great Recession. Anderson holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Michael Lewis

Chief innovation officer, NanoRacks

Michael Lewis

Chief innovation officer, NanoRacks

Michael is currently the chief innovation officer at NanoRacks, LLC, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and imaginative direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the ISS, including the NRCSD (the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) system which deploys satellites from the ISS, a satellite deployer that deploys satellites off the Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a number of unique space platforms that enable space-based science, research, and education.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

1:15 PM

Lunch

2:10 PM

Reining in risk

As beneficial as new technologies are, they come with serious associative risks. What are they and what are we doing about them? From misinformation to AI ethics and data privacy, how well prepared are society and business to mitigate these risks?

Renee DiResta

Director of research, New Knowledge, and media, misinformation, and trust fellow, Mozilla

Renee DiResta

Director of research, New Knowledge, and media, misinformation, and trust fellow, Mozilla

Renee DiResta is the director of research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge, and head of policy at the nonprofit Data for Democracy. Renee investigates the spread of disinformation and malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations. In 2017, Renee was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and had the opportunity to continue her work with the support of the Presidents Bush, President Clinton, and the LBJ Foundation. She is 2018 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, a Harvard Berkman-Klein affiliate, a staff associate at Columbia University Data Science Institute, a Council on Foreign Relations term member, and a founding adviser to the Center for Humane Technology. Previously, she has been the co-founder of logistics startup Haven, a Principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and an emerging markets derivatives trader at Jane Street. Her work and writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Wired, Slate, Fast Company, and the Economist. She is the author of the O’Reilly book“The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand”, and lives on the web at http://reneediresta.com and @noUpside.

Tracy Frey

Director of strategy, Google Cloud AI

Tracy Frey

Director of strategy, Google Cloud AI

Tracy Frey is Google Cloud AI's director of strategy and is dedicated to ensuring Google Cloud AI is responsible, thoughtful, and collaborative as it continues to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning. Tracy has been with Google for 7 years, and has worked with a number of teams, including Cloud AI, Android | Chrome | Education (ACE), Google Offers and Solve for X. Before joining Google she followed a circuitous career path that has involved multiple early-stage tech startups and functions including product management, growing a developer community, product marketing, business development and often all of the above at once.

Dan Wagner

Founder and chief executive, Civis Analytics

Dan Wagner

Founder and chief executive, Civis Analytics

Dan Wagner is the founder and chief executive of Civis Analytics, a data science firm based out of Chicago, IL. Dan founded the company in 2013 with backing from Eric Schmidt from Alphabet.

Today, Civis has 180 employees, and it provides its technology to data science and insights teams within consumer-facing organizations. Civis’s client roster includes Verizon, Airbnb, Discovery Communications - and also multiple non-profit and government clients.

Before founding Civis Analytics, Dan served as the chief analytics officer on the 2012 Obama campaign. His group revolutionized polling, statistical modeling for voter outreach, and targeted paid media for politics.

Dan received his degree in economics and public policy from the University of Chicago.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2:40 PM

Life on the edge: Blowing away the cloud

Computing is emerging from the centralised cloud and moving to an “edge” of networks and intelligent devices. What are the startups, incumbents and hardware makers trying to ride the trend? Who will be the ones colonising the edge and, in particular, which firms will control the “Internet of Things” (IoT), as connected devices are collectively called? Will Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and other large cloud providers manage to extend their reach? Or will the edge be the remit of a different set of firms, including makers of factory equipment and other sorts of gear?

Hansang Bae

Chief technology officer, Riverbed Technology

Hansang Bae

Chief technology officer, Riverbed Technology

Hansang Bae is Chief Technology Officer at Riverbed Technology. He is responsible for guiding the company’s technology vision and strategy in the digital performance industry, as well as SteelScript (open APIs) and Wireshark open source development.

In his tenure with the company, Bae has held several executive positions including Chief Scientist leading the Strategic Technology Group of the CTO office and the Global Consulting Engineering team. Prior to joining Riverbed, Bae was a member of the Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering leadership team. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi.

Lonne Jaffe

Managing director, Insight Venture Partners

Lonne Jaffe

Managing director, Insight Venture Partners

Lonne Jaffe is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners, and joined the firm in 2017. He was previously the CEO of Insight portfolio company Syncsort, which he joined in 2013 after serving as the senior vice president for corporate strategy at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, Lonne spent over a decade at IBM, where he led a number of sizable software acquisitions and held various technology strategy and operating executive roles.

Robert Wolcott

Clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Robert Wolcott

Clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Wolcott is clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Wolcott is also a managing partner with Clareo, a foresight and growth strategy consultancy serving global corporations.

He’s co-founder and chairman of The World Innovation Network, a global community of over 2,000 innovation and growth leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors (business, government, the arts, academia, defense). TWIN gathers 450 delegates for TWIN Global each year in Chicago to explore the future.

Wolcott serves on advisory boards for ZF, a 40 billion USD German automotive supplier, H-Farm, the leading technology ecosystem in Italy, and the Open Innovation Lab of Norway. Wolcott serves on the board of CureBlindness (Himalayan Cataract Project), a global non-profit that has restored sight to over 500,000 people in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

He is a regular contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity. His book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese. Wolcott’s work appears in MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Harvard Business Review (online), TheWall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Business Week, The Financial Times (European Edition), TheNew York Times and numerous overseas publications.

Wolcott holds a BA, European and Chinese history; and an MS and Ph.D., industrial engineering & management science, Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife, Ada, and their two daughters, Jolie and Sage.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

3:20 PM

Spotlight interview: High-tech health-care

Daniel Kraft

Founder and chair, Exponential Medicine, and chair for medicine & neuroscience, Singularity University

Daniel Kraft

Founder and chair, Exponential Medicine, and chair for medicine & neuroscience, Singularity University

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is the founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.

Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.

He has multiple scientific publications and medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California San Francisco.

Daniel is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society (Class 13) and member of the Inaugural (2015) class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship.

He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies. Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

3:40 PM

Afternoon networking break

4:10 PM

Flash of genius

What should be the role of technology in the 21st century?

Alex Gladstein

Chief strategy officer, Human Rights Foundation.

Alex Gladstein

Chief strategy officer, Human Rights Foundation.

Alex Gladstein is chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as vice-president of strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, WIRED, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, presented at the European Parliament and U.S. Department of State, and participated in Singularity University events from Berlin to Johannesburg, where he is a guest lecturer on decentralization and bitcoin. He currently lives in the San Francisco area.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

4:20 PM

Fireside chat: If blockchain ran the world

Blockchain provides proof of who owns what at any given moment. Will blockchains replace messy decision-making with clean cryptographic code? Or could blockchains and contracts be too smart for their own good and ossify society—or allow rogue elements to run amok? What will be the state of business in the decentralized future? How will we deal with scalability problems? Will blockchain provide the solution for the challenges posed by the internet of things (IoT)? How do investors evaluate blockchain companies and what are the real possibilities for mass adoption? We will take a hard look at the reality versus the rhetoric.

Julie Sweet

Chief executive, Accenture North America

Julie Sweet

Chief executive, Accenture North America

Julie Sweet is chief executive of Accenture North America, leading Accenture’s business in the United States, the company’s largest market, and Canada. She is also a member of Accenture’s global management committee. In North America, the company serves more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500.

A leader on issues including innovation, technology’s impact on business, and inclusion and diversity, Ms. Sweet serves on the Board of the Business Roundtable and chairs the Business Roundtable’s Technology Committee. Ms. Sweet serves on the Catalyst Board of Directors and is a member of the TechNet Executive Council. She also is the co-chair of the Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders. In 2018, she was named to FORTUNE’s list of “Most Powerful Women” for the third consecutive year.

Prior to assuming her current position in 2015, Ms. Sweet served as Accenture’s general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer. Before joining Accenture in 2010, she was a partner in the Corporate department of the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Ms. Sweet holds a bachelor of arts degree from Claremont McKenna College and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. She is married and has two daughters.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

4:45 PM

Ask the Economist: Where to next?

In this closing session Economist editors will discuss the day’s findings and where exponential technologies will take us next.

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard

New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018 she was the consumer goods and retail correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional retail and consumer companies around the world. From 2011 to 2014 she was The Economist‘s health-care correspondent, writing about the health industry, health-care policy in America and global health. From 2007 to 2011 she was The Economist’s Midwest correspondent, covering American politics and a range of policy issues, including education, agriculture and transport. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts, midwest correspondent, The Economist

Adam Roberts is Midwest correspondent for The Economist covering politics, policy and social affairs in America. Previously he was European Business and Finance correspondent based in Paris. Prior to this he was South Asia correspondent for The Economist, based in Delhi, where he oversaw political and general coverage from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, among other countries. Adam joined The Economist as a writer in the Foreign Department in June 1998, with a particular focus on developing countries and transnational issues. From May 2001 to the end of 2005 he was the Southern Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. Subsequently he was the News Editor of Economist.com, in London, until 2010. He has been in India since 2010. He has written special reports on the Nordic countries (2003), International Migration (2008) and two reports on India (2012 and 2015). He has written a book about a mercenary coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, “The Wonga Coup” (2006), published in Britain, the United States and South Africa.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

US business editor, The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the United States business editor of The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as the newspaper’s London-based Latin America writer, and opened its first regional bureau in Mexico City.

As an award-winning senior correspondent, he opened the magazine’s Shanghai bureau in 2012, and was the China business editor and bureau chief until mid-2017. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation held annually in Chicago, Berlin and Hong Kong.

His latest book (published by HarperCollins) is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems.” He previously co-wrote “ZOOM”, with Iain Carson, and “Power to the People”, two award-winning books about the future of cars and energy.

Vijay is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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